The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has some of the best comedy and theatre in the world and is one of the main pinnacles for Australian comedians to aspire to. The way the festival got it’s beginnings is strange but in the end I guess it makes total sense given the very nature of what the festival is today.

At first, when offered the opportunity to hear from a concierge I was sceptical, cynical in fact. I only accepted the offer because at this point I wasn’t sure what I was doing and I had nothing better to do. I turned up late and unsure of what was going to be said that would be interesting but walked away totally intrigued.

During the scary part of a journey through The London Bridge Experience I had some guy who didn’t speak english jump on my back with his arms around my neck and his legs straddles around my waiste. We became closer than I had expected in such a short space of time.

Why did a woman from over a hundred years ago who did a job that thousands and thousands of people do every day become so famous? Florence Nightingale is referenced by many who really don’t fully understand why she was so famous.

Big rocks; great big rocks; in the middle of nowhere; for no known purpose. Stonehenge truly is a mystery.

Now of course there are a lot of myths about such a mysterious place so don’t believe everything that you hear or read but that doesn’t mean that Stonehenge is lacking mystery. Let me tell you what you need to know.

Stratford-upon-Avon is a place I had never heard of until after I arrived in England but if I am now certain of one thing it is that I have been influenced by this old place. All the way over the other side of the world the very words that I speak are because of Stratford-Upon-Avon and I had no idea.